1. Duely noted.

2, You have to measure each race independently for Congress. People hate all Congressman save their own. When you take the time to examine the details, you’ll find that Democrats should have 55 Senate seats and a 239 to 196 advantage in the House.

A Freshman, Rust-Belt Senator like Brown is going to have to prove he is tough on fill-in-the blank to retain his seat, (terror, drugs, crime). He’s know in part of the state, but Freshman seats are always the most vulnerable and poll driven. Don’t get me wrong New Deal Dems tend to be less in favor of reform and more culturally conservative depending on the State or District. I shouldn’t even say New Deal Dem, because that’s a vestige of the past and every time period’s factions are unique to current events.

Every member is going to have blips that seem incongruent until you look at the polls that they were looking at and it makes sense. Anything that your constituents want over maybe 55%, most non long-term members will support. Also, the Congress scrapple’s together so much legislation you really have to pull apart the pieces to see what buttons were pushed to receive certain actions.

Sherrod Brown voted for the Military Commmissions Act as a Congressperson in 2006.

But you’re right that other than the torture and denial of habeas corpus thing, he’s a “New Deal Democrat.”

Also, please note that Congress is now even less popular than the President. For the first time ever, less than 10% of the public thinks Congress is doing an excellent job. So maybe they’re just trying to work their way up the ladder.

BTW, Lemuel, damb good point…
Shall we bury the hatchet? {not in each other…}

Democrats bowing but not scraping is bipartisanship, not capitulation. You could look it up.

Scoreboard.

Also, an x-ray of your skull will indicate whether your nasal septum deformation is causing your headaches, in conjunction with allergies,it’s something that can be easily fixed.

http://www.mejfm.com/volume-5_issue-6/chonic_headache.htm

In which session was that?